scholarly journals Understanding context and forces for choosing organizational structures for continuous delivery

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Alexandre Ferreira Leite ◽  
Fabio Kon ◽  
Paulo Meirelles
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
The Other ◽  
It Professionals ◽  
Continuous Delivery ◽  
Functional Teams

In this research, we aim to understand the organizational structures adopted by software-producing organizations for managing IT technical teams in a continuous delivery context. Following Grounded Theory guidelines, we interviewed 46 IT professionals to investigate how organizations pursuing continuous delivery organize their development and operations teams. Among our results, we discovered four organizational structures: (1) siloed departments, (2) classical DevOps, (3) cross-functional teams, and (4) platform teams. After having discovered such structures and their properties, we describe, in this paper, our plans to better understand which contextual properties and forces lead an organization to adopt an organizational structure to the detriment of the other ones.

A Proposal on Developing a 360° Agile Organizational Structure by Superimposing Matrix Organizational Structure with Cross-functional Teams

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-294
Author(s):  
Kiruba Nagini R. ◽  
S. Uma Devi ◽  
Sayed Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Simple Structure ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Hr Practices ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Functional Teams ◽  
Professional Bureaucracy ◽  
Machine Bureaucracy

With the growing business opportunities and expanding boundaries, the organizational structure of the companies is becoming highly dynamic with several levels flattened out and branching out horizontally, instead of being vertical. With agility required in all fast-evolving organizations, it is essential to check out for the suitability of the modern organizational structures prevalent, being classified by Mintzberg as ‘entrepreneurial or simple structure, machine bureaucracy, professional bureaucracy, divisional form, and adhocracy or innovative’ (Mintzberg, 1980; Lunenburg, 2012). In this article, we propose a 360° Agile organizational structure which is a hybrid of the matrix organizational structure superimposed with cross-functional teams (CFTs). This article discusses the possibilities of forming smaller teams without compromising the incidence of the essential ‘skills– talents–competencies’, necessary for every single project, thereby superimposing the matrix organizational structure and the CFTs. This article also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this proposed organizational structure. A possible cross-check with regard to the scalability issues has also been made with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) agile HR practices.

METHODOLOGY FOR CHOOSING THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 2003-2012
Author(s):  
O.V. Karpets ◽  
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A.V. Sinitsyn ◽  
A.V. Firsova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Urgent Problem ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Internal And External Factors

This article discusses the problem of choosing the correct and effective organizational structure of enterprise management for its correct functioning. The existing types of organizational structures of enterprise management, which are used in practice today, are analyzed, and their positive, negative sides and the type of enterprises for which they can be used are revealed. Along with this, this article discusses and describes methods for choosing an organizational structure for an enterprise. Also, during the study, internal and external factors were identified that affect the choice of an organizational structure. Based on the analysis, a methodology for choosing the most effective type of organizational structure for enterprises was drawn up. The question of choosing an organizational structure is acute for every manager at the very beginning of the operation of an enterprise, because the quality of performance of functions, both of individual divisions and of the entire enterprise as a whole, directly depends on this. Among many types of organizational structures in this study, the types of organizational structures that are most adaptable to changes in external and internal factors are identified. This study provides methods and tools for selecting the appropriate organizational structure for any enterprise. At the moment, some methods, be it goal structuring or computer modeling, are not widely used, which in turn makes it difficult to choose an effective organizational structure for enterprise management. The choice of an effective organizational structure is an extremely urgent problem today for every entrepreneur, who is interested in the stable economic activity of his or her enterprise.

The Other Sex Work

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Winter ◽  
Morgaine Struve
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Case Study Analysis

This work is a case study analysis of the contemporary feminist academic pornography discourse. Based on two academic articles, two competing discourses are identified and examined using constructivist grounded theory and discourse analysis. This clash of discourses is traced back firstly to changing social norms on sexuality: Older generations, who still inhabit most positions of power within academia, are largely still representing restrictive attitudes on what constitutes “acceptable” sexualities. Secondly, research conventions within the humanities and social sciences have changed to defy easy explanations. Pornography researchers are therefore forced to choose between conforming to prevalent sexuality norms or research conventions.

Process and trends in strategy and form of organizational structures (research of Istrian Partnership Companies of Hospitality)

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-362
Author(s):  
Marli Gonan Božac ◽  
Marčelo Dujanić ◽  
Tihomir Vranešević
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Top Management Team ◽  
Executive Leadership ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Organizational Redesign

The success of partnership companies of hospitality depends on occasional and constant improvements. The two most important stimuluses of improvement are the change of organizational structures (organizational redesign), and the executive leadership. The executive leadership and thereby the top management team has the key role. The redesign of organizational structures has to be a dynamic process which will enable the compatibility with its surrounding. The analysis of the organizational structure and strategy is conducted on the sample of Istrian partnership companies of hospitality.

scholarly journals Multinational Banks and Supranational Supervision

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 2997-3035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo Calzolari ◽  
Jean-Edouard Colliard ◽  
Gyongyi Lóránth
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Coordination Failures ◽  
The Public ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Multinational Banks ◽  
Editorial Decision ◽  
Public Costs ◽  
Published Paper

Abstract Supervision of multinational banks (MNBs) by national supervisors suffers from coordination failures. We show that supranational supervision solves this problem and decreases the public costs of an MNB’s failure, taking its organizational structure as given. However, the MNB strategically adjusts its structure to supranational supervision. It converts its subsidiary into a branch (or vice versa) to reduce supervisory monitoring. We identify the cases in which this endogenous reaction leads to unintended consequences, such as higher public costs and lower welfare. Current reforms should consider that MNBs adapt their organizational structures to changes in supervision. Received January 9, 2017; editorial decision September 15, 2018 by Editor Philip Strahan. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.

Information Security Aspect of Operational Risk Management

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janusz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki ◽  
Maciej Byczkowski
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Operational Risk ◽  
The Other ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Operational Risk Management ◽  
Hand Shaping ◽  
Product Service ◽  
The One

Information Security Aspect of Operational Risk ManagementImproving organization means on the one hand searching for adequate product (service) matched to the market, on the other hand shaping the ability to react on risks caused by that activity. The second should consist of identifying and estimating types of risk, and consequently creating solutions securing from possible forms of it's realization (disturbances), following rules of rational choice of security measures as seen in their relation to costs and effectiveness. Activities of creating the security measures should be organized as constantly developing and perfecting and as such they need formal place in organizational structure and rules of management

scholarly journals Finding of Hard and Soft Territory in Rental Low-Cost Apartment by Using Grounded Theory Method

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fermanto Lianto ◽  
Lilianny Sigit Arifin ◽  
Y. Basuki Dwisusanto ◽  
Rudy Trisno
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theory Method ◽  
Grounded Theory Method ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Family ◽  
Territorial Control

Abstract Sharing a corridor space in a rusunawa could form patterns of adaptation and exemplify the phenomenon of territorial mastery. This research aims to understand the form of this mastery as perceived by the occupants using the Grounded Theory method. The results show a theory of territorial mastery that can be developed from the findings in the field is a new theory of territorial characteristics, based on hard and soft territory. The hard territory is territorial control that is tangible or intangible, fixed or unchanged, and firm, whose existence is clear in a space that can be seen, occupied or controlled and maintained, and recognized by other residents. On the other hand, the soft territory is territorial control that is tangible and intangible, and which allows for flexible and soft shifts because it is an expression of the family and cultural emotions of guyub, so that mastery of the soft territory occurs not only because of tolerance, but also because of the prioritization of the feeling of kinship in living under one roof, and the harmonization of guyub relationships amongst people in a community

scholarly journals SELECTED INNOVATION TOOLS IN DESIGNING PROCESS MANAGEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Tomáš Novotný ◽  
Simona Novotná
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
System Integration ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Cluster Structure ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Current Position ◽  
Agile Project Management

This contribution deals with the specification of the current immunity of strategy and status and level of procedural management in special organizational structures referred to as industrial clusters. It represents selected specifics of the design and application of innovative tools, system integration, and agile project management of clusters. It describes and explains the context between the strategy, the organizational structure, and the need for project procedural management at the current position and competitiveness of clusters on the market in demanding energy and environmental conditions. In the end, it shall submit its own author's design scheme for a new organizational project aimed at a cluster structure and draft management process and coordination of clustered projects for their clients.

scholarly journals Insurgent Citizenship and Sustained Resistance of a Local Taxi Association

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 168-185
Author(s):  
Sethulego Z. Matebesi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Intermodal Transport ◽  
Infrastructural Development ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The One ◽  
Conflictual Relationship

A growing body of literature on urban and grassroots social movements is replete with case studies of citizens mobilizing against infrastructural development projects. These mobilizations, known as insurgent citizenship—the participation in alternative channels of political expression—take different forms and have various impacts. An investigation into the case of the mobilizing agenda of the Greater Bloemfontein Taxi Association (GBTA) against using a costly intermodal transport facility in Bloemfontein is aimed at highlighting the often neglected dilemma of how powerless citizens—for example, taxi owners—respond to state hegemony. Theoretically, the article is grounded in the conceptual framework of insurgent citizenship and, empirically, draws on narratives of a range of participants. The findings provide an understanding of the importance of organizational structure and leadership in the sustained insurgent action by the GBTA. It is argued that the insurgent action by the GBTA is produced mainly by—on the one hand—the conflictual relationship between government policies and practices and—on the other hand—grassroots resistance to their exclusionary and marginalizing effects. Furthermore, the findings elucidate that insurgent practice may be driven by neoliberal principles of competition, profit, and entrepreneurship.

Nowy kierunek badań ewolucji modeli samorządu terytorialnego w Niemczech z perspektywy procesu komunalizacji i dekomunalizacji

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-110
Author(s):  
Marta Balcerek-Kosiarz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Government Function ◽  
Federal States ◽  
The Core ◽  
German Model ◽  
Research Criteria

The aim of the article is to indicate a new direction of research on the evolution of system models of local self-government in Germany in the perspective of communalization and de-communalization. Communalization can be used to explain legal regulations of a local government, which are similar to the South German model and, on the other hand, to explain how analogous regulations that strengthen the role of the legislative body, both in the municipal self-government and in the county self-government, function in the same federal states. De-communalization enables to investigate the role of starosta (Starost) in the organizational structure of county self-government. The core result of the study is the fact that on the basis of the three research criteria (geographic, historic, and the range of relations between legislative and executive bodies) the process of communalization of municipal self-governments and county self-governments in 11 federal states has been duly corroborated.

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